pay-phone
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A public phone you use by putting coins or a card in it
- noun
- /ˈpeɪˌfoʊn/
- Archaic
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cabina telefónica
- I'm at a pay phone on my way to work.
- call from a pay-phone
- pay-phones on the street
So they programmed it to make the sound of coins going into the pay phone.
- So they programmed it to make the sound of coins going into the pay phone.
- We're in the biggest city in America and you lose your phone, nothing else to do with no pay phones, no hotels nearby.
- You know, they're, they're no longer those shoe leather, scrappy working class guys and gals shoving Dimes into the pay phone trying to work their sources.
- I stayed out of the lobby and then I would just call the hotel from across the parking lot and the pay phone over there to find out what room I'm in from her.
- It's an old school phone, like a pay phone.
- So I leave class and go back to my dorm mileage hall and go down the end of the pay phone, you know, no cell phones and stuff then.
- Call my mom from a pay phone, called her a I won't say it BITCH for not telling me it existed, right?
- And we got on the phone at a pay phone and called in to to Jimmy are called into the show saying to Brian, yeah, Brian, you're right.
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Examples
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Let me borrow some change for the pay phone, man.
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You can make a call from the pay phone located at the bus station.
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Remember, go straight to the pay phone and wait for my call.
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You mean the pay phone?
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Is there a pay phone around here?
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The guard will answer on a pay phone.
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Four indoor public pay phones are available for student use in the school.
Academic text (2004) -
Well... there's a pay phone right down the street...
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Girl named Mary called on the pay-phone.
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There are pay phones across from the elevators.
Synonyms
5.2
A public telephone you use by putting coins in it
allows coins or a payment card for public use
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Etymology
Pay-phone joins pay ('to give money') and phone ('voice device'), so it is a phone you must pay to use, usually by putting in coins or a card.